weft

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The very warp and weft of language are clichés, worn metaphors, secondhand phrases copied so often that their lack of originality, of idiosyncrasy, is what allows them to have communicative power.

From Slate • Jun. 24, 2023

The Greenlanders' cloth started out identical to the Icelanders' warp-dominant fabric but eventually shifted to  contain more threads in its weft than its warp.

From Scientific American • Sep. 15, 2022

They were dappled, like the hues in nature, thanks to the unique weave of the textured and irregular fabric weft.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2022

Edmonds isn’t flag-waving; instead, she’s visually weaving the warp and weft of a painted textile for contemplation.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2021

To my eye, it seemed carefully made: a warp of fine cotton threads, ten or fifteen to the inch, crossed at half-inch intervals by paired weft threads in a basket-like pattern known as “weft-twining.”

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann